Justin Schon is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He works on a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, climate scientists, and social scientists to develop predictive models of environmental change and human migration. Justin concentrates on issues of migration, armed conflict, and development. Before joining the University of Florida, he obtained his doctorate in Political Science from Indiana University, Bloomington.
His current research analyzes internal and international migration flows with network, time series, spatial, and interview methods. His work has appeared in Journal of Refugee Studies, Civil Wars, International Interactions, and Journal of Social Structure. He is currently revising a book manuscript on civilian self-protection strategies during conflict, drawing from over 250 interviews with Syrian and Somali refugees.
As an ISEP fellow, Justin seeks to contribute to understandings of energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa. This fits within his broad curiosity in how ordinary people and elites obtain information and respond to uncertainty.